Shell's Diner: The Curse of Looking Older

This unique story is both biography with a touch of fiction only to tie together the different events of a young man's life named Michael G. until he reached the age of 20 years. Michael came to me to chronograph his life in story form. So, his story began with his mother abandoning him at a very young age, only to be raised by his drunken father who abused him, both physically and verbally. When he was 14, he ran away from home and joined the ranks of the homeless. Michael's story is a true inspiration of how a tiny room, a young friend and luck, managed to see him through the tough times and then rewarding good with a few unexpected surprises along the way. For Michael, his appearance changed too rapidly and prematurely in his youth. It caused people to view him to be much older than he really was. This curse, he saw as a disability and an annoyance; it was just something else that added to the difficulties he was already faced on his journey of becoming an adult.